Chapter X

Made so many great friends on that tour it's unbelievable. Myself and Matt from High on fire got on like fucking brothers. The guys from Clutch we're like the coolest peeps I've met, and we even did some looooooong late night drunken jams with them.

The set their gear up in the parking lot in Corpus Christi/TX and all these different constellations were jamming like hell, drunk out of our fucking heads! Strapping young lad obviously is now considered some of my best music-friends. I have some weird bond with Devin Townsend, he's a fantastic person! Gene Hoglan obviously is...Gene....the coolest daddy-o on the planet. Will, their keyboardist turned out to be a crazed Volvo fan and kept talking about Volvos, I mentioned I had one and his eyes we're like "bing"!! He kept bombing me with questions...I was like...well "I got some winter tires for it"...I don't know anything about cars.

The guys from Gwar we're so funny....great, great guys. Nice meeting Devildriver again and Dez gave me so many bottles of wine it was insane. I hope to repay the favour some day. DD is some of our best touring pals to be honest, we have a great time with them and I hope to tour with them again.

Coming home didn't means resting this time either...I had a gig, THE gig with Bloodbath scheduled within 3 days so I basically just said hi to my family and then pissed off down to Linköping for rehearsals. It sounded great from the get go. The other guys had been rehearsing without me so I just had to join in and it was magick!!

The gig was awesome, loads of people there at Wacken, we did 10 or 11 songs and the crowd was pretty much insane the whole time. I was covered in fake blood and we all had our shirt ripped and stained with mud and blood, looked great, really!

As I'm writing now I've been home for a couple of days. We spent a week on 9 different flights to different parts of Europe doing some festivals and press. It seems like this album is gonna do us lots of good. It's bound to, it fucking rules! * * *